Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

King James Version

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Holman Bible

For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

International Standard Version

Because from Israel it was fashioned by craftsmen, it is not God; therefore Samaria's calf will be broken in pieces.

A Conservative Version

For even this is from Israel: the workman made it, and it is no God. Yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

American Standard Version

For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Amplified


For even this [loathsome calf] is from Israel.
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces and go up in flames.

Bible in Basic English

The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

Darby Translation

For from Israel is this also: a workman made it, and itis no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Julia Smith Translation

For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.

King James 2000

For from Israel is even this: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Because [it is] from Israel, an artisan made it, it [is] not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken [to] pieces.

Modern King James verseion

For from Israel it came also. The craftsman made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the calf came from Israel; the workman made it: therefore can it be no God, but even to a spider's web shall the calf of Samaria be turned.

NET Bible

That idol was made by a workman -- it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

New Heart English Bible

For this is even from Israel. The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

The Emphasized Bible

For, of Israel, is even that thing! A craftsman, made it, and, a No-god, it is! For, into fragments, shall the Calf of Samaria be broken.

Webster

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

World English Bible

For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Youngs Literal Translation

For even it is of Israel; an artificer made it, And it is not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

it therefore it is not God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

but the calf
עגל 
`egel 
Usage: 35

of Samaria
שׁמרון 
Shom@rown 
Usage: 109

References

Context Readings

Israel Rejects The Good

5 I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 6 For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:15

Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.

2 Kings 23:19

And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.

2 Chronicles 34:6-7

And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,

Psalm 106:19-20

They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Psalm 135:15-18

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Isaiah 44:9-20

All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Jeremiah 10:3-9

for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 43:12-13

I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.

Jeremiah 50:2

"Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.

Hosea 10:5-6

The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests-- those who rejoiced over it and over its glory-- for it has departed from them.

Habakkuk 2:18

"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!

Acts 17:29

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

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